Achillean

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/ˌækɪˈliːən/

形容詞

Invincible with only one small weakness (an Achilles heel), which becomes one's downfall. / Guided by emotional motives, especially rage, rather than reason.

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The startup's Achillean growth seemed unstoppable until a minor compliance oversight—its Achilles' heel—triggered regulatory action and brought it down.

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意味（1）

Invincible with only one small weakness (an Achilles heel), which becomes one's downfall.

意味（2）

Guided by emotional motives, especially rage, rather than reason.

意味（3）

Of or relating to Achilles Tatius, a Roman-era Greek writer.

There is, I suggest, a typically Achillean joke at play here, a visual pun, displaying the phoenix as truly phoenix-ian in its exposure of its sex organs and at the same time snidely alluding to the Phoenicians' famed preoccupation with female genitalia.

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意味（4）

Pertaining to the Achilles tendon.

Tendon-reflexes, as a rule, remain intact, except the Achillean one, which is frequently either absent or lowered.

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意味（5）

Of or relating to sexual or romantic intimacy between men, in the style of Achilles' relationship with Patroclus.

You should think of this and be pleasanter toward me, and love me as guilelessly as I love you, so that when you are a man we may be Achillean friends to each other. Theocritus, Moschus, Bion, edited and translated by Neil Hopkinson, Cambridge MA - London (2015)

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